After reading this article I was very shocked by how many of these new disorders have been discovered as well as how many people might have them. I also found a few of them very relateable. One in particular was called the phantom ring. The phantom ring, also called ringxiety or fauxcellarm, is when a person thinks their phone is ringing or they have gotten a text when in fact they haven't. In a study of 320 adults 2/3 of them reported experiencing a phantom ringing. For me this does not only happen with my phone. Every once and a while I can hear my mom yelling for me when shes not even home or in the middle of the night. Whenever I try to analyze it to see if it was real or not it just sounds like something I said in my head but heard out loud for some reason. Sometimes it really freaks me out. I have also heard a phantom ring on other peoples phones. Like when my brothers or my moms phone is sitting right next to me I feel like I heard it vibrate like they got a text and when I check it there is no notification.
Many of these disorders seem like they could be easily fixed but in this day and age there are many cases that have gone to the extreme. Today we found out that Steve Jobs, the creator of Apple, doesn't even have an IPad in his house. For now it looks like things can only get worse and my only question now is how are we going to deal with the rapid expanding age of technology.
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